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    • Aug 29, 2007
    Tex Davis, a.k.a. William Douchette, dies in Nashville. A former Monument Records promotion man, he co-wrote the Gene Vincent classic "Be-Bop-A-Lula"
    Sep 3, 2007
    Janis Martin, rockabilly music's first female artist, dies of cancer at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina
    Sep 25, 2007
    Bass player Patrick Bourque dies at his home in Montreal, Quebec, just two days before his 30th birthday. Bourque had left Emerson Drive the previous month, following a five-year stint in which the band notched a #1 hit with "Moments"
    Sep 28, 2007
    Evelyn Knight dies of lung cancer at a nursing home in San Jose, California. After developing a series of pop hits during the 1940s, she scored a 1951 country hit by teaming with Red Foley on "My Heart Cries For You"
    Oct 7, 2007
    Songwriter Steve Karliski dies at his home in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Karliski wrote the Faron Young hit "The Yellow Bandana" and the Bill Anderson & Jan Howard duet "For Loving You," among others
    Oct 11, 2007
    Fiddler Benny Williams dies at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville. He toured with Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, Marty Robbins and Bill Monroe and appeared on the Porter Wagoner hit "Misery Loves Company"
    Oct 13, 2007
    Brent Burkett dies of cancer in Nashville. He was a founder of The Four Guys, who were members of the Grand Ole Opry from 1967-2000
    Oct 17, 2007
    Comedian Joey Bishop dies at his home in Newport Beach, California. A member of the Frank Sinatra-led Rat Pack, he received the Academy of Country Music's Man of the Year award in 1968
    Oct 17, 2007
    Pop singer Teresa Brewer dies of a neurological disease at her home in New Rochelle, New York. Several of her songs--"Let Me Go, Lover," "A Tear Fell," "Empty Arms" and "Pledging My Love"--were remade as country hits
    Oct 17, 2007
    Clarence "Tater" Tate dies of lung cancer at his home in Jonesborough, Tennessee. He earned acclaim as a fiddler and bass player with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys



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